Tag: non-writing hobbies

Creative people are often creative in more than one way. In addition to writing fiction, I also do some web design and I dabble in jewelry-making. After a day of too many words (at work and on the page), it can be very enjoyable to to do some visual, tactile creating with beads. Heavy, charcoal hematite beads mixed with diamond-cut silver beads glitter on the bead board. Laying out the beads in orderly or random patterns is strangely soothing and satisfying. Working on new jewelry pieces also gives me time to think over plot events or character arcs.